“Volvo – The home of bright ideas”; feature article of BTH/Volvo CE innovation collaboration with Tobias Larsson
http://www.volvoce.com/constructionequipment/corporate/en-gb/press_room/articles/innovation/Pages/volvo_the_home_of_bright_ideas.aspx
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PSS Extreme Innovation projects released!
In the international masters programme in Sustainable Product-Service System Innovation, MSPI there is project course with live industrial projects; PSS Extreme Innovation. For 4 months the students team up with companies to work on their challenges, trying to deliver innovative solutions to their challenges. The course is focused on, together with...
Prof Larsson keynote at Automation 2011
[2011-04-14] Tobias Larsson was invited keynote speaker at Automation 2011 in Malmö 13-14/4 2011. Prof Larsson held a talk on “Increase the value in swedish industry – How can the swedish production system be improved and what should we pick up from other environments. The importance of working with method...
Participation in Aviation National Research Agenda addendum work
[2011-03-17] Professor Tobias C. Larsson has been a member of the core team behind the 2010 release of an Aviation National Research Agenda (NRA Flyg 2010). NRA Flyg 2010 was the result of a unique collaboration where companies, academia and institutes – together with relevant governmental agencies – have aligned...
CRESCENDO Value Engineering Workshop in Luleå
On February 2nd-4th the Division of Functional Product Development hosted the third EU FP7 CRESCENDO WP2.2 physical meeting. Marco Bertoni, Tobias Larsson and Christian Johansson have welcomed in Luleå representatives from Volvo Aero, Rolls-Royce UK, EADS, University of Southampton, INSIA Toulouse and Pyramis. The meeting had the purpose to clarify...
Holographic Product Verification – HOLOPRO
2010-01: The divisions of Functional Product Development, Experimental Mechanics, and Mathemathics have gotten hypothesis testing from VINNOVA. SUMMARY The hypothesis in this project is that it is possible to perform a quantitative evaluation of predefined attributes for a physical product in a manufacturing process in less than one second. Today...
New project; Robust Machining
2009-12: The VINNOVA programme for vehicular research “Fordonsstrategisk Forskning och Innovation – FFI”, has decided to fund the research project “Robust Machining” with 10 million SEK. The project runs over 2009-2012 and has a total budget of 24 MSEK. Within the project FPD will research knowledge intense applications for manufacturing,...
ProViking result day 2009
The annual result day for ProViking was this year held at Aspenäs Manor outside Gothenburg, where 15 projects presented their results. ProViking is a national research program designed to create improved systems of production and new methods of product development. From Luleå University of Technology three projects participated; THINK, ProAct...
New project; methodology for energy efficient transmissions
2009-09: Divison of Functional Product Development in collaboration with Volvo Construction Equipment, Volvo Powertrain and Linköping University of Technology have been granted the project “Fuel Efficient Transmission Technology Concepts: Design Methodology” within the VINNOVA program “Fordonsstrategisk Forskning och Innovation” (FFI). The project budget is 18 MSEK 2009-2012 and aims at...
New research project within aerospace development!
2009-06: Division of Functional Product Development, in collaboration with Solid Mechanics, Material Mechanics, and Volvo Aero have been granted 4.4 MSEK over two years for “METOPIA – METhodology for OPtimization, Integration and Automatization”. The project intends to develop methodologies for analysis of whole engine concepts in aerospace applications using Systems...